Older editions weren't cucks about it (ironically, given it is NTR), and said straight-up that most half-orcs are rape babies, either of human women in outskirt towns, or of enslaved orc women for men with peculiar tastes.
Ebberon has a neat way of addressing it: The world of Ebberon is very, very young, like only 2000-odd years old, some beings were around when it first came into existence, and kidnapped/abducted a sample of all life to begin there. Half-orcs and Half-elves are among those kidnapped, and the original bloodline of them, breeding true to only other halves to the lineage of the first arrivals, gives rise to Dragonmarks, powerups. Those born of inter-breeding humans and other races, technically resulting in the same half-race, are low mongrels and do not get Dragonmarks. So you can prove if you're a pureblooded half-elf or a bastard child one by showing your tattoos, and there's a clear caste system there.
Older editions weren't cucks about it (ironically, given it is NTR), and said straight-up that most half-orcs are rape babies, either of human women in outskirt towns, or of enslaved orc women for men with peculiar tastes.
Ebberon has a neat way of addressing it: The world of Ebberon is very, very young, like only 2000-odd years old, some beings were around when it first came into existence, and kidnapped/abducted a sample of all life to begin there. Half-orcs and Half-elves are among those kidnapped, and the original bloodline of them, breeding true to only other halves to the lineage of the first arrivals, gives rise to Dragonmarks, powerups. Those born of inter-breeding humans and other races, technically resulting in the same half-race, are low mongrels and do not get Dragonmarks. So you can prove if you're a pureblooded half-elf or a bastard child one by showing your tattoos, and there's a clear caste system there.